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Christina Rosetti
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Mary Howitt
Mary Howitt was a poet who wrote many children's poems and stories throughout her lifetime, sometimes with her husband (they are said to have written 180 books in total). Her stories grew very popular, at one point even being read by Queen Victoria. She also developed an interest in Scandinavian literature and language and translated a few of Hans Christian Anderson's novels.
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Mary Howitt's daughter, Anna Mary Howitt, went on to become an artist involved with the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and who was friends with Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jean Ingelow
Jean Ingelow was a poet and children's novelist. Often, she wrote both under a pseudonym, a habit which she began as a girl. One of her story collections was illustrated by John Everett Millais, a prominent pre-Raphaelite painter. In 1863 she rose suddenly to fame with her publishing of Poems. Like Rosetti, much of work has strong elements of religion
Rossetti and Ingelow were acquaintances, though not close. Rossetti wrote about Ingelow's poetry in letters and journal entries, in one instance calling Ingelow - in relation to speculation about Ingelow being in the running for Poet Laureate, a speculation that had also surrounded Rossetti herself - "a formidable rival to most men, and to any woman". In a letter to a friend, Rossetti also called her "that wonderful poet"
Augusta Webster
Wrote to Rossetti in the late 1870s asking for her support in a campaign she was involved in which aimed to give women the vote but Christina Rossetti refused to help as she believed men and women were created by God as fundamentally different beings with different responsibilites and purposes within life. She is however to be recorded as having respected and admired Webster's poetry
Webster was a much acclaimed writer, dramatist and translator whose work had a strong feminist focus. She became the first female writer to hold an elected position, becoming a member of the London School Board in 1879 and worked with the National Comitee for Women's Suffrage throughout her life. Her work was so celebrated that she was considered by some to be Elizabeth Barrat Browning's successor
Josephine Butler
Josephine Butler was a campaigner for women's rights, suffrage, and education who sought the eradication of the Contagious Diseases Acts and the abolition of child prostitution.
Butler discovered the abhorrent issue of underage prostitution while researching about the C.D Acts and worked with the controversial journalist W.T. Stead to reveal this to the public, which was one of the factors behind the raising of the legal age of consent.
In 1869, she published a book titled "Woman's Work and Women's Culture", a compilation of essays written by both male and female feminist writers of the time.
While Christina Rossetti worked with ex-Prostitutes in her voluntary work at the St Mary Magdalene house of charity, Butler's campaigned for improving conditions for prostitutes. Thus both women did work that involved helping so-called 'fallen women', even if their methods and focuses were different
Harriet Martineau
Rossetti & Matineau were writing with a focus on Women's rights during the same period and much like Rossetti Martineau felt that women had a disposition designed for marriage and motherhood, despite never marrying herself. Unlike Rossetti however Martineau believed that the ultimate state of religion was a type of philisophical athesism and with each passing stage of humanity humans distanced themselves further and further from strict ideas around deity and Gods, which she viewed as evidence of the world containing no thestic being. Martineau's relationship with religion was vastly different from Rossetti's and she strongly believed in a secular state, seperate from religious influence.
Martineau was a social scientist and historian who would publish over 100 books within her lifetime as well as regularly writing as an editorial writer for the Daily News. She would help popularise the work of serveral prominent economists as well as Anti-Slavery and feminist movements.
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